Hello all,
 
I am John Anderson, the Adult educational Director at ProLiteracy Worldwide.
I am very interested in co-branding a series of Health Literacy books
covering a wide range of topics, written at level four.
 
If anyone has contacts with a large organization or company that may want to
sponsor this series, I would be very interested in speaking with them.
 
 
Any kind direction you may be willing to give would be greatly appreciated.
 
Best regards,
 
John
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Bertha Mo [mailto:bertiemo at yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 2:57 PM
To: The Health and Literacy Discussion List
Subject: [HealthLiteracy 1006] Re: Funding for bilingual cancer booklets


Hi Janet Green:
 
I've been wanting to take the opportunity to say hello.  My name is Bertie
Mo and I was the health education consultant to NCCP for the NCI funded
"Chinese American Health Education Project" that was completed in 1981-2.
Subsequent to that project, I co-chaired a community effort that brought the
first successful mamography screening to SF Chinatown.  
 
Some of the folks who contributed to that effort who might be contacted were
the local chapter of ACS, which had Chinese, Black, and Latino committees,
Health Center # 4 and #5.
 
A very novel and low cost way to get information into print was by using our
contacts in the Chinese media (particularly print).  They are starved for
good material.  I had a staffer who could read and write Chinese and we'd
put together very basic and easy to read stories which we got the local
papers to print.  Then, we'd just xerox the material.  
 
Many Chinese immigrants are literate enough to read the newspaper and they
don't all have the expectation of fancy type and color.
 
Try contacting Stephen Jiang who is with the California office of ACS in
Oakland.  Stephen chairs ACS' Cross-Cultural or Multi-cultural Taskforce.
They might be able to access materials for you.
 
You might also try "googling", "cancer information in Chinese."
 
Best,
 
Bertie Mo, Ph.D., MPH

Julie McKinney <julie_mcKinney at worlded.org> wrote:

Hi Janet and all,

Please do not feel that comments have to be relevant to the Wednesday
question. You can comment or ask about anything at any time!

As for the funds, I'm surprised that NCI and ACS do not offer anything
for this. The results of the 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy
(NAAL) show that Hispanic Americans have significantly lower levels of
health literacy than other ethnicities, which should add support to
funding bilingual materials. Does anyone have ideas? I'll check into it.

Best,
Julie

Julie McKinney
Discussion List Moderator
World Education/NCSALL
jmckinney at worlded.org


>>> "Janet Green" 06/12/07 2:32 PM >>>

Dear Readers,

There is nothing like sending a letter that contains errors to a Health
Literacy Forum! Please forgive me. I know that my request is not
relevant to the question of the week. I do hope that someone has had
better luck finding funds. I should have pointed out that we cannot use
pharmaceutical company funds for these projects at the request of the
physicians involved.

Thanks. My apologies.

Janet Green

-----Original Message-----
From: healthliteracy-bounces at nifl.gov
[mailto:healthliteracy-bounces at nifl.gov]On Behalf Of Janet Green
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 10:20 AM
To: The Health and Literacy Discussion List
Subject: [HealthLiteracy 1002] Re: [Health Literacy 998] Re: Health
LiteracyDigest, Vol 21, Issue 16


I know my is not relevant to the question of the week. Are there any
suggestions for where to find funding for printing costs for brochures 
and booklets on various medical topics. The ACS and the NCI do not
appear to offer funding for bilingual cancer booklets. We are in need of
funding for two bilingual cancer booklets. Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks,

Janet Green MSPH
Senior Health Educator
Chinese Community Health Resource Center
San Francisco, Ca


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